I need to make a very small image to stamp onto things. What is the best way to do it?

Question

There is a very very tiny image that I need to find a way to recreate it in a way that I can mass produce it by stamping it onto things. I cannot use a printer because it needs to be stamped with a special type of ink. The letters are miniscule, I mean so small that I cannot possibly hand craft it.

Answer 1

You can have a stamp made with various materials (rubber, photopolymer, etc.) by various companies... or there are also ways to make them yourself with the same materials (not easy though).

My recommendation would be to ask at an office supply or stationery store if they make rubberstamps (many do), or personally I'd just order it from ReadyStamps:
http://polyclay.com/ready.htm
(there's a link to their site there after the explanation of what they do)

The Ready-Stamps folks will make you a stamp from anything you can draw or print out with very black ink.
Their smallest size, I believe, is 9x7" for the images allowed though, so you'd either have to pay the $37 (32 + 5 s/h) for your one stamp, or you could fill up the 9x7" paper with other images you'd also like to have as stamps.
(If you *ask* btw, they'll also send you the mold of the stamp sheet, etc.... the "matrix" and the "plate")


Diane B.

P.S. There's another online company with a similar name... be sure you're getting the one you think you're getting.



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